The Follow Through Formula Podcast

In this episode Rick shares another notable story from his performing career in which an audience member receives a phone call mid-performance and proceeds to carry on an animated and audible conversation during the very presentation Rick was in the middle of delivering at the front of the room. Listen in as Rick describes the most unlikely outcome you can imagine and what it all has to do with the principle of following through.

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In this episode Rick interviews Dr Geoffrey Carr, clinical psychologist, about how to work with intrusive feelings and distressing emotions that inevitably accompany any type of change or growth. Even positive life action is bound to create anxiety in the person who is making a life leap and Dr Carr explains how we can become more comfortable and prepared for the onset of these feelings as we go after what we want in our lives.

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In this episode Rick tells a story of how improper focus on a goal almost resulted in breaking his hand and why it's important that you experiment with structuring your own goals in new ways to get best results with your follow through. And if you want your goals to fail, you're in luck, as Rick shares the 3 things you can do that will ensure you never develop sufficient motivation to achieve them.

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Once again Rick chats with Dr John Souza about how to keep moving forward when you hit the doldrums in the midst of a life leap and lose the wind in your sails. As John explains, the physics and laws of making a life leap are tested and reliable, and he shares a few of those here along with anecdotes from his journey as he transitions from full-time therapist back to a career in music, now much wiser and more mature of course than his touring days as a young man.

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Rick has previously shared the lessons from his book "7 Rules You Were Born to Break" which details 7 hidden rules in our culture that we need to break if we want to follow through on who we really are. Rule # 3 is "Be Independent" and in this episode Rick attempts to "walk the talk" of essential rule breaking by asking for help.

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There are two ways we can miss the boat with rest. In this episode Rick talks about two opposite tendencies, both of which can prevent us from serving what matters most. By the time you listen to this Rick will have already wiggled out of the invitation to challenge his own tendency, but it's the effort that counts. (Rick hopes.) Today's episode is a short one so you can double up on another episode and catch up if you're trying to stay current.

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We've all sat before a magician who is about to perform a trick as they say, "Now pay attention, because if you're not paying attention you're going to be fooled and you won't know how it happened." But there's a secret about this moment when we are invited to pierce deception that is both good news and bad news. Rick reveals what it is in this episode and shares the work we need to do to escape the illusions that bind us to personal limits.

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You may not be aware that you're giving a vote and voice to parts of yourself that have no business making decisions when it comes to follow through. In this episode Rick talks about we can use the power of particular questions to give the vote of whether we or not we take useful action to the right inner forces. This is a confidence Game that comes from Rick's Games for Confidence platform.

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In honor of the holiday this was recorded on, Thanksgiving Day 2020, Rick offers a perspective on the role that gratitude plays in the journey to be ourselves and to follow through on the "real you." If you reach this episode outside of the Thanksgiving holiday, you'll still be able to easily apply the principles shared in this podcast to the ongoing celebration of your daily life.

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In this episode Rick tells two stories of risks that were taken, first by a close friend which then inspired Rick to take a big risk that turned out to be a pivotal juncture in his professional career as a performer. The story illustrates how the fears we often have about a potential life leap only exist in our imagination, and once we're actually residing in the present moment with our challenges, they are much more workable, and even enjoyable, than we imagined they would be.

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In this episode Rick explores the two elements necessary for building our confidence and ability to follow through on what matters most. Our cultural orientation focuses only on one of these elements and leaves us short on education about developing the other. If you don't like gardening analogies, don't worry, Rick shares 3 clear and specific steps you can take to prepare for successful follow through that don't involve getting dirt beneath your fingernails.

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This episode examines the unavoidable wall of resistance that naturally accompanies our pursuit of what matters most. In fact, according to Steven Pressfield, that resistance becomes more pronounced the closer we get to making a life leap. Rick shares his own current doldrums and the resources he is turning to stay moving forward.

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In this episode Rick talks about the idea of moving on from the past, and while this can sometimes be a best approach, we might use this notion to avoid reclaiming something that is an essential part of who we are that we have left behind. Rick tells a poignant story that illustrates how past experiences can limit our engagement in life.

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In this episode Rick makes an attempt to recover his sense of humor and lighten up on the path of the all-important, super-serious, deadly meaningful work of LIVING WITH PURPOSE. (If you don't listen to this episode all you need to know is that if these podcasts are making you more serious in your life you should stop listening immediately, go watch re-runs of the 3 Stooges, and then come back when you're sufficiently re-connected to a sense of the human comedy.)

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Most of us are still carrying the baggage of a fading past, growing up in an environment that offered us the binary choice of behaving little a good little boy or a good little girl. Despite the fact that our list of choices is expanding, our culture of birth still indoctrinates us into expectations, scripts and narratives that we're likely to accept unquestioningly in order to keep our connections with our families and friends intact. Anyone who wishes to live from purpose is faced with the work of recovering their Being from the ashes of cultural and familial expectations.

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Rick shares a story about a tragic national incident that took place in 2015 and the coincidental series of circumstances that placed him in the middle of a challenging decision and the need to examine his own priorities and values. Rick didn't know that an organization he was scheduled to speak for around this time would wind up becoming more of a source of inspiration for him than he would provide in return as their motivational speaker.

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Rick interviews Lopon Barbara Du Bois, Ph.D. about her own lifelong journey toward follow through. Barbara retraces her own steps from deep confusion and inner disorientation to a life literally dedicated to speaking and living from truth. Author, teacher, activist, seeker and lover of human purpose, Barbara shows us how we're in just the right spot if we're living with trepidation and the thrill of the unknown at the same time.

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Questions can be an incredibly effective way of leading our own attention toward follow through. Unconscious questions that we repeatedly ask ourselves without knowing we're doing it can actually prevent us from following through. How often do you ask yourself good questions? Are you aware of the disabling questions you may be asking yourself without knowing it?

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There is no escaping the human need for growth. In trying to avoid the inherent stress of growing we often succeed in shrinking our world, but in the process, the impulses that are meant to drive our unfolding stagnate and create dis-ease in their wake. We cannot erase the creative energy of discovery, exploration and learning. Our attempt to do so does not turn out well in the end. In this episode Rick speaks about the need to cooperate with our moment to moment purpose.

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CAUTION: This episode contains wild and unproven assertions and assumptions about your goodness, your value, what's possible in your life and your capacity to dance with it. This episode may very likely annoy you unless you need tsome raw enthusiasm and energy that isn't necessarily connected to a logical or rational train of thought. Now that you've been warned, skip this one with confidence, or dive in and see what the heck Rick is up to this time.

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